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TIL there is an international catalogue of endangered heritage foods called the Ark of Taste. Example foods include the pawpaw, bra sausage, and casu martzu.

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6NYX TIL on February 15, 1933, the Mayor of Chicago was shot by an Assassin who was instead aiming at President FDR. The Mayors reportedly said on the way to the hospital, where he later died: “I’m glad it was me and not you, Mr. President”
OolQL TIL, that Mein Kampf was not the only book written by Hitler. Finished in 1928, a second book never went to press and remained in manuscript form. The English title of the second book is " Hitler's Second Book".
R7pk8 TIL Neuroscience shows people can’t actually read and listen at the same time so having too much text on a PowerPoint slide is useless
Ooxa6 TIL that the birth of Jesus Christ is closer in time to the modern day than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza
LGo9 TIL that Slash hated the song sweet child o mine even though it was an instant hit and was born around a riff he himself played accidentally for fun.